Kavitha (Kolappa) Porchet, MD MPH

I’m a psychiatrist, and I approve this message 💚

The @LAZoo's decision to send Billy & Tina to another zoo is wrong and shows clear disregard for their wellbeing. These elephants deserve peace and freedom at a sanctuary. We support @BobBlumenfield's motion to halt the move. Let’s do better. #FreeBilly #FreeTina

@DocBlock_neuro Congratulations, Cady!

Look what came in the mail today🎉 This is a workbook designed to supplement my original text, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵’𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘱. It has lots of useful tables, samples, exercises, and other tools to help you along your neuropsych journey! Link is below👇🏻

@raghu_venugopal 100%! Also a doctor and totally agree…. Humility is an extremely important trait in medicine

Patients with no medical training are sometimes totally right. They say I think I'm having a retinal detachment, heart attack or pneumonia. I welcome this. The challenge is to be a resource steward, address the concern and keep an open mind. Patients can be totally right.

@JimMannBC 💚

Returning home from a walk in Surrey, Canada yesterday (last day of Feb) I saw these daffodils getting ready to show their beauty. I’m ready.

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

@NTFabiano I totally agree, this also bothers me! I am opting now to only publish open-access - and if you can’t, consider publishing a summary on Medium or similar freely accessible publication. I did this for my most recent paper and am very happy there’s no paywall for readers!

I have published several papers behind paywalls, that I, the author, cannot access. That says something about the state of academia.

"Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity...typewriting do[es] not activate...networks the same way that handwriting does."

@DocBlock_neuro Congratulations, Cady!!

After years of effort, I’m proud to announce a companion workbook to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵’𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘱 and a text reviewing the neuropsychological implications of a range of medical and behavioral health conditions. Both will release early next year 📚

spent 3 days sculpting flowers so that I could make this

@JudithKBass Love!

A labor of love - our "How to Develop an Implementation Science Measure in 3 countries concurrently" case study paper is finally out! link.springer.com/article/10.118…

@OzzieCrocco Yeah!!!!!

Ideas to get pets more pets on college campuses to promote student well-being: 1. University libraries partner with local cat shelters to have cat sections in their libraries. 2. Small dog parks on campus with some student workers during peak class times where students can walk to campus with their dogs, leaving them for 90 min., and then get them after class.

This morning I got a call from a 202 area code number I didn’t recognize, but I answered anyway. The person on the other end said, “Mayor Ward, I’m calling from President Biden’s office, do you have time to talk to the president?” 1/ @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris @DemMayors

oh my god

I just heard my husband quietly say to the baby, "you are really cute . . . do you think we're cute too?"

Don't wait – check your state's voter registration deadline today and make sure you're registered and ready to vote. And then share this with your friends and family so everyone's ready to vote early or by Election Day. VoteSaveAmerica.com/Obama

“we’re not going back,” I whisper to my telomeres as I survey the biological consequences of the last 8 years

@galbamd @LucySchulson Love this! Hope you guys are well!!

very mindful, very demure

We have, for too long, shackled the bakery to the morning. Night bakeries. Fresh croissants at 11pm. It is possible.

escape room but the only way out is to finish writing your paper

Academic publisher Elsevier's profit margin compared to Apple, Google, and Microsoft Apple: 28% Google: 25% Microsoft: 34% Elsevier: 37% with a revenue of $3.9 billion. Elsevier's payment to academic authors and reviewers: $0